Just A Memoir

A memoir is a piece of autobiographical writing, usually shorter in lenght than an autobiography. One's memoir tries to grasp certain highlights in one's life as well as to grasp sentimental moments in one's past. Memoirs' are big in publishing today and often one has to think really hard about the meaning of that event and the time it occurred in one's past. The memoir may be more emotional and concerned with capturing particular scenes, or a series of events, rather than documenting every fact of a person's life. In other words, memoirs are records of events written by an individual who has personal insight and knowledge of these records based on their observations. Usually, the person has personally experienced these life situations. On the other hand, a memory is simply one's mental capacity to retain and recall past experiences of a person, thing, event, fact and so on. Personally, I have a bad memory so to right them down, as in a memoir, is beneficial.